The president of #Barnard College lost a faculty-wide vote of no confidence on Tuesday, as criticism mounts over the school’s response to a pro- #Palestine 🇵🇸 encampment
It is the first no confidence vote against a president in the college’s history.
We need to bring more attention to the university-specific #bds demands that the students of the #studentspring are making: companies invested, dollar amounts, research relationships, etc. So far, the divestment aspect seems to be lost, when it's actually the most important part.
In "The Book That Wouldn't Burn" by Mark Lawrence, each chapter is prefixed with a quote from a book, real or imaginary.
It gives the author a chance to make statements tangentially about the plot, throw in some humorous asides, and maybe even take a political stand about real world events.
In the first of 6 lessons presenting #Pragmatism to the world in 1907, William #James spoke in detail about human suffering being both an irreducible fact and the locus where the phenomenon of life itself is at its most real. We cannot both downplay suffering and grasp life. #Gaza#CeaseFireNow
"..our universities in Australia must be places where we have the courage to take up our responsibilities as ethical researchers and teachers: our classrooms must be spaces of historical truth-telling that seek to explain why and how this is happening and support students to express their truths, including through student activism."
"As educators and researchers, we pay our deep respect to Palestinian scholars, writers, artists, and activists, including Palestinians based in Australia. We commit to continuing to learn from long histories of Palestinian description, critique, and analysis. Our colleagues in Palestine have called on us again and again to take action, and so we must. Telling the truth in history – as we know from our experiences in this settler-colony of Australia – is an important act of resistance, and we commit to undertaking this task."
sharing a poem from the birdsite because it is heartbreakingly beautiful; a poem by Refaat Alareer, who was killed yesterday in an Israeli airstrike: "If I must die"
Pentagon says none of the aid unloaded from US pier off coast of Gaza has been delivered to broader Palestinian population (edition.cnn.com)